Quotes About Boredom

Boredom turns a man to sex, a woman to shopping, and it drives newscasters berserk.

Boredom is rage spread thin.

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.

Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest.

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half of the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

One of the worst forms of mental suffering is boredom, not knowing what to do with oneself and one's life. Even if man had no monetary, or any other reward, he would be eager to spend his energy in some meaningful way because he could not stand the boredom which inactivity produces.

Monotony is the awful reward of the careful.

Boredom is the most horrible of wolves.

Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Boredom is simply the lack of imagination.

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

In the ancient recipe, the three antidotes for dullness or boredom are sleep, drink, and travel. It is rather feeble. From sleep you wake up, from drink you become sober, and from travel you come home again. And then where are you? No, the two sovereign remedies for dullness are love or a crusade.

As for boredom ... I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done.

Man is the only animal that can be bored.

The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.

One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.

We often forgive those who bore us, but can't forgive those whom we bore.

Passions are less mischievous than boredom, for passions tend to diminish and boredom increase.

It is better to be happy for the moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.

Boredom is useful to me when I notice it and think: Oh I'm bored; there must be something else I want to be doing ... boredom acts as an initiator of originality by pushing me into new activities or new thoughts.

Boredom, like necessity, is very often the mother of invention.

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

Three-quarters of a soldier's life is spent in aimlessly waiting about.

There are an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.